
Winona Ryder
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Biography
Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s.
After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with major roles in Heathers (1989), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). She garnered critical acclaim and two consecutive Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of socialite May Welland in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and Jo March in the fifth film adaptation of Little Women (1994). Her other films during this period were Reality Bites (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), The Crucible (1996), Alien Resurrection (1997), Celebrity (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), which she also executive-produced.
In 2002, Ryder starred in the critically panned box office hit Mr. Deeds, after which her career declined and she took a break from films. In 2009, she returned in the high-profile film Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards: as the lead actress in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan. She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie (2012). She has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–present), for which she has received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations; and in 2020, she starred in the HBO drama miniseries The Plot Against America.
Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were both subjects of tabloid journalism. She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Known For

The Simpsons

E! True Hollywood Story

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Honest Trailers

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Drunk History

Friends

Celebrities Uncensored

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Strangers with Candy

The Larry Sanders Show

Zoolander

Haunted Mansion

The Oscars

65 Revisited

Star Trek

Show Me a Hero

Stranger Things

Frankenweenie

Black Swan

1969

Saturday Night Live

Lucas

Homefront

Beetlejuice

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Mr. Deeds

Edward Scissorhands

Mermaids

Alien Resurrection

Sex and Death 101

Autumn in New York

Destination Wedding

Heathers

The Plot Against America

Gone in the Night

Little Women

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Night on Earth

Reality Bites

Girl, Interrupted
Production Credits
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